On 02 Jun 2007, at 12:35, Jonas Maebe wrote:
Of course, since Windows provides such functionality, people nevertheless depend on this. But when creating cross-platform code, it's clearly a very bad idea (and several of the caveats mentioned above can of course also hold true under Windows).
FWIW, similar functionality was also removed from Java after a while. Sun wrote an article explaining why this was done: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/misc/ threadPrimitiveDeprecation.html
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